Mini-Cuts

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I've never seen any posting about this before, so I thought I'd see what /fit has to say about "mini-cuts".

Basically, a mini-cut is when you go on a cut for a much shorter duration, like 2-3 weeks in order to lose some fat that you gain while lifting. I've encountered this several times, when you gain more fat than you had anticipated, and thus cut down for a few weeks to get things back into shape, and then go back to normal.

Say I started lifting at 90kg 6'3, and over 6 months I gained 10kg, of which 6kg was muscle (since in your first year you can expect to gain 12.5kg of lean muscle). Thus 4kg is fat which would be relatively easy to burn off by going on a mini-cut for a few weeks, maybe lose like 3kg in three weeks, it has happened before.

I'd like /fit's opinion on this, is it better to just bulk for 6 months, and then cut for 6 months, i.e long and long? Alternatively would it be better to try to keep your fat in check by doing a series of many smaller mini-cuts?

Also, a related question, the sticky says we can expect to gain about 12.5kg of lean muscle in our first year of lifting, is this if you did nothing but bulk or does it expect you to cut as well?